Word: barefootedness
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The weird creature looked like a bad dream. Dark hair curled dankly almost to his shoulders, and he smiled slyly out of a dirty white face. It was a wintry day, but he was barefooted. He wore long woolen underwear, an outlandish, oversize, red flowered sunsuit and, over it all...
When they found him next day he was lying with his head pillowed on one arm. He was black, bearded, emaciated, and barefooted. Said one of the rescuers: "Looks like we got a dead one." Alvey moved, opened his eyes. "God, I'm glad to see you," he whispered...
Last week blood did run. A mob of 3,000, whipped on by Kashani and other mullahs, gathered outside the Majlis building. There they tangled with police and soldiers. Some demonstrators acted on a Persian belief that the barefooted are the fleetest; they shed their slippers and scampered for safety...
But then a downright embarrassing thing happened. Redheaded Christine Johnston, who says the governor is the father of her baby boy (TIME, March 15), filed 264 questions she wanted Jim to answer before her paternity suit goes to court. Hadn't Jim told Billy Pichelmayer that he and Christine...
Dour General Zaragoza had never expected such folly. There was just time to open fire with the fortress' guns, and to move the infantry to the top of the hill. As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812...